Posted By
Najib
Sep 09, 2023 04:16
Riad Salameh is gone and so is his shady exchange platform "Sayrafa". Instead, the Council of Ministers has agreed to adopt a new Bloomberg-operated platform for dollar trading, which is expected to reflect the actual and free exchange rate, limit the cash economy and replace the numerous parallel market exchange rates. This is in theory of course, but the truth is that while this platform may provide more transparency, the absence of reforms and the…
Posted By
Najib
Aug 25, 2023 04:04
Hundreds of thugs identifying themselves as soldiers of God attacked partygoers at a bar, beating them up, threatening the owner and destroying furniture. How did the security forces respond? They stopped them from entering the bar, helped guests to flee the place but did not arrest any. Meanwhile, Nour Hajjar shared a joke on the Lebanese Army working as Toters, and he's being summoned by the Military Police at their barracks in Rihaniyye. It's quite…
Critiques
1 year ago
Back in 2014, a judge bravely dismissed a case against a transgender woman on the basis that article 534, which prohibits sexual relations that “contradict the laws of nature”, cannot be used against homosexuals. This ...
Critiques
1 year ago
Media people invited to cover the Amr Diab Concert apparently had to a sign a memo forbidding them from sharing any negative comments on the event, on Amr Diab, Rodge and the organizers. The memo ...
Critiques
1 year ago
The Kahaleh incident will probably take few days to cool down and no serious investigation will be conducted, as usual, until we get another similar incident, followed by tensions then a cooldown and so on. ...
Critiques
1 year ago
How many times are we going to hear such tragic stories? How many children and innocent civilians have to pay the price of dumbasses firing their guns in the air? The answer is unfortunately not ...
Critiques
1 year ago
An old picture showing rainbow cakes sold at Pain D’or resurged online few weeks ago, triggering an Anti-LGBTQ campaign against pastry shops selling rainbow cakes. The campaign even extended to include festivals that were raising ...
Critiques
1 year ago
Lebanon’s Minister of Culture tweeted today that Lebanon will suspend cultural coordination with Denmark and Sweden and their corresponding embassies in Beirut. The decision comes after the Koran burnings that took place in both countries, ...
BeirutBlast
1 year ago
The director behind an upcoming movie called “The Creator” has decided to use real footage of the Beirut port crime to simulate a nuclear explosion. Footage of the Beirut port was modified to conceal some ...
Critiques
1 year ago
Three years ago, I posted about the Mseilha dam asking why wasn’t it completed yet; the Energy Ministry claimed back then works are still underway and that we have to wait till 2021 for the ...